Aphid squirt. They’re making the aphids squirt in their mouths, eating it, and throwing it up in each other’s mouths. It’s like if a whole society thought two girls one cup was just what you do.
nature is beautiful
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MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 days ago
You’re telling me this movie was actually accurate The ant bully
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I had this going on in my backyard one summer. Nearly killed my pepper plants but one application on pyrethrin luckily stopped it.
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dish soap diluted in water also works and is pollinator friendly.
Just a little bit of soap, a few drops in an old cleaner spray bottle filled with water should do it. Too much and you risk sun-burning the plants.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, when I first started growing peppers I did this and nearly killed a bunch of plants because I used too much.
It only takes a tiny bit and works wonders.
nectar45@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
God I wish that was me…
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
exhibitionist whore
NotLemming@lemm.ee 2 days ago
First the bees now this
Forester@pawb.social 2 days ago
I prefer free range pre masticated pollen substance
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
i mean you do you but personally i think honey is nicer
(honey is regurgitated nectar, not pollen. Pollen is rich in protein which would make for a very strange honey)
Pandantic@midwest.social 1 day ago
Literally ants domesticating lower life forms to get sustenance from them, which is wild to me.
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kinky aunts
alykanas@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Ain’t no party like an ant party
infinitevalence@discuss.online 2 days ago
I normally have to pay for services like this. Lucky bastards.